Yes, anon, I am still wondering. What is your “Cusp of clarity”. The expression has a nice alliterative feel to it. Surely it must mean something, I thought.

So I Googled it. I’m none the wiser though. Couldn’t find it.

BTW, the hoary old “horses to water” saying is to the effect that you can give somebody an opportunity, but you cannot force them to do something. The point of the saying is not that the horse is “refusing” an opportunity, simply that it is disinclined to take up an opportunity generously made available to it. You see, you take it as a given that you “lead” readers to “water” but I don’t.

Thanks Night. Like: on the cusp of obviousness perhaps. The discontinuity, the watershed, when something obvious becomes something non-obvious? would that it were as simple as that.

I just think that clarity is a value that approaches 100% without any cusp, but asyptotically. Any therefore the notion of a “crux” of clarity is an oxymoron. But perhaps this is something on which reasonable minds can differ. What do you say?

I like the phrase too. It sounds great. I wonder then; perhaps the anon used the phrase to express his disappointment that, just at the point when the thread in which he and I were so active was on the brink of delivering 100% clarity, it fizzled out.

Could be. I have no idea. Still, it’s a nice fantasy, I give you that.

“Architectural patents are not limited to innovative construction technologies. Innovative dispositions of space – that is, novel arrangements of the programmatic spaces as represented in floor plans, sections, or their three-dimensional equivalents – can also be patented. They are functional technologies that “do” something, not simply copyrightable artistic works, because they have programmatic affordances: they allow some human behaviors and patterns of human activity to occur more easily than others.”

“examines patents on architectural designs issued over the last century and a half to flesh out the surprisingly expansive legal standard for what constitutes a patentable design at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).”